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The J. Marion Sims Foundation on Monday announced plans to donate $50,000 to the Lancaster County Community Foundation and match up to $25,000 in additional donations.
The money will be used in a broad variety of community-building efforts.
“We applaud the generosity of the J. Marion Sims Foundation,” said Chip Cox, chair of the Lancaster County Community Foundation. “We have been studying the data, looking at indicators of community health, and we believe we can make a bigger impact together.”

A 14-year-old Indian Land resident has died after he was seriously injured when his bicycle hit a tree near the Carolina Thread Trail on Nov. 19.
Lancaster County Coroner Karla Deese identified the victim as Garrett Howison.
According to Garrett’s obituary, he and his family had moved to Walnut Creek from Xenia, Ohio, in August. His parents are Jason and Angie Howison.

A 83-year-old Kershaw woman died in a fire at her home Monday morning, one of three residential fires across the county in two days.
The Lancaster County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Bonnie F. Hilton, who lived on West Welsh Street. An autopsy is scheduled for this morning.
The Kershaw, Flat Creek and Heath Springs volunteer fire departments responded to the home around 9 a.m., along with full-time Lancaster County firefighters, according to Lancaster County Fire Marshal Russell Rogers.

The S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles has released examples of the new REAL ID driver’s licenses coming in 2018.

Drivers looking to travel through airports or get into federally regulated buildings or military bases will need this driver’s license – or another federally approved ID such as a U.S. passport or military identification – to gain that access.

The federal REAL ID Act of 2005 set the security standards for certain types of identification. The new S.C. licenses comply with this act.

HOPE in Lancaster is kicking off its annual Ward Faulkenberry Sr. Christmas Basket Fund today and will collect items and monetary donations through December.

Former American Legion Post 31 Commander Ward Faulkenberry Sr. founded the Christmas basket drive in 1959. HOPE began leading the fundraiser in 2008, after the Red Cross chapter that was heading it moved out of Lancaster County.